Raymond Depardon

Photographer and documentary filmmaker

Raymond Depardon (1942) is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. In 1966, Depardon co-founded the photojournalism agency Gamma. Depardon began his career as a photojournalist in the early 1960s. He travelled to conflict zones including Algeria, Vietnam, Biafra and Chad. He covered the Prague Spring and directed his first short film Jan Palach (1969) about Jan Palach, a Czech student who self-immolated in protest of Soviet occupation

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